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Tangled random triangles: One giant component?
Suppose you have $n$ triangles whose corners are random points on a sphere $S$
in $\mathbb{R}^3$.
Viewing the triangles as built from rigid bars as edges,
two triangles are linked if they cannot be ...
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Knotted TSP tours in 3D?
In the plane, the Euclidean TSP tour never crosses itself—it is always a simple polygon.
I am wondering if there is a similar constraint for the Euclidean TSP tour
of points in $\mathbb{R}^3$.
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Random rings linked into one component?
Let $S$ be a sphere of unit radius.
Let $C_n$ be a collection of unit-radius circles/rings whose centers
are (uniformly distributed)
random points in $S$, and which are oriented (tilted) randomly (...